2012-13:BIG EAST All-AcademicIndoor (Fr.): Competed in the 400 meters at four meets during the 2012-13 indoor campaign... Posted a new personal-best with a time of 1:02.07 at the GVSU Big Meet (Feb. 8) ...2013 Indoor Performance List.Outdoor (Fr.): Competed in the 200 meters and the 400 meters during the 2013 outdoor campaign ... Registered a new personal-best in the 200 meters with a time of 28.54 at the MU vs. UW-Milwaukee Dual (April 5)... Posted a new personal-best in the 400 meters with a time of 1:01.91 at the Benedictine Twilight (April 26) ...2013 Outdoor Performance List.

High School: Connolly earned four letters in track and field at Newman Catholic High School ... Was a four-time all-conference performer for the Cardinals, while helping the squad to a state championship in 2009 and a runner-up finish in 2010 ... Holds personal bests of 26.97 seconds in the 200-meter dash, 59.33 seconds in the 400 and 17 feet, 1 inch in the long jump ... Also earned three letters in basketball and four in tennis ... Was a very accomplished basketball player, earning Wausau Daily Herald Girls Basketball Player of the Year and WBCA All-State honors as a senior ... Also named conference's division player of the year as well as academic all-state ... Earned all-state honors as a senior in tennis.

Personal: Connolly was born in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., and is the daughter of Thomas and Kimberly Connolly ... Has an older sister, Megan, and a younger sister, Abigail ... Father played basketball at Lake Forest College ... High school class valedictorian and president of school's National Honor Society chapter ... Plans to pursue pre-medicine.